Re: polymorphism (was compare swarm with repast)

[Gulyas Laszlo]

On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 address@hidden wrote:
[...]
>
> How important this is to modeling is left as an exercise to the
> reader.  (Hint: Do you think two humans know a-priori which methods
> the other responds to? ;-)
>

If you want to do that, that's really where Java's Reflection API
comes in handy. And as far as I got with dynamic binding in Obj-C,
reflection is really easier. But that's perhaps because I never
stood the 'message metaphor'... :-)

Gulya


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